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Big Guns

Big Guns

Israel, Steve

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 150111803X
ISBN13: 9781501118036
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Apr 23 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
From Steve Israel, the Congressman-turned-novelist who writes in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen (The Washington Post), a comic tale of the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics: Congress should pass a law making Big Guns mandatory reading for themselves (Nelson DeMille).When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of a huge arms company in Asabogue, Long Island, is worried. In response, he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate. Asabogue's Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town--right in Otis Cogsworth's backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a small village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, and the bucolic town becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby and the absurdity of requiring that every American, with waivers for children under age four, carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics. New York congressman-turned-novelist Steve Israel delivers a second brilliant political satire (Booklist, starred review). An entertaining satire (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Big Guns is a wonderfully irreverent satire about the fractured and fractious American political and lobbying system...a rollicking comedic trip (Publishers Weekly).

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